The Constitutional Court of Russia will consider the case on the constitutionality of the norm on alimony based on the complaint of football player Safonov

On October 8, the Constitutional Court of Russia will consider the case of checking the constitutionality of the norm of the Family Code of the Russian Federation on the payment of alimony based on the complaint of football player Matvey Safonov.

In July, it was reported that the Constitutional Court accepted for consideration Safonov’s complaint against the norm of the Family Code, according to which child support amounts to a certain proportion of the payer’s income.

According to the complaint, which is at the disposal of RIA Novosti, by decision of the courts, Matvey Safonov, the former goalkeeper of “Krasnodar”, and now of the French “Paris Saint-Germain”, from January 2022 is obliged to pay alimony for the maintenance of a minor child in the amount of a quarter of his earnings or other income.

As the footballer points out, he paid off the alimony debt in a lump sum for almost 3.5 years, paying more than 61 million rubles, and the total amount of alimony transferred for the maintenance of the child already exceeds 90 million rubles.

At the same time, Safonov notes that his income as an athlete is not stable and depends on many circumstances.